Sentence examples for evil phenomenon from inspiring English sources
"Saddam Hussein's regime is an evil phenomenon, but fascism is the product of democracies that have gone wrong, that had working constitutional systems which they gave up voluntarily," Mr. Paxton said.
Beyond Sunday's spectacular display of unity against terror, questions must be asked: was enough done, in recent years, to fight back against the evil phenomenon that is now so vocally condemned?
Appeal to consequences and guilt by association Instead of evidence, a theory is rejected based on its alleged consequences or linking the opponent's viewpoint to distasteful and evil phenomena.
Plato, in the Timaeus, conceived of God as being a nonomnipotent shaper and thus accounted for the manifest element of evil in phenomena.
Marcion, a 2nd-century Christian heretic, inferred from the evil in phenomena that the creator was bad and held that a "stranger god" had come to redeem the bad creator's work at the benevolent stranger's cost.
Now it's intrusive cell phones and road rage as social analogues of such evil cultural phenomena as women-hating rap lyrics and foul speech on "reality-based" television shows.
I hate to look to another Austrian for the answer, but psychoanalytic group therapists believe and teach that -- for good or for evil -- two phenomena drive the power of groups: Amplification and contagion.
The trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his co-defendants is of vital significance because it addresses not just a group of thugs but the enduring human phenomenon of evil.
We may be used to thinking of evil as a profound phenomenon, the product of a brooding Iago figure, riven by despair.
"Sixty years after Brown, it is clear that the notion of segregation as a discrete phenomenon, an evil that could be flipped, like a switch, from on to off, by judicial edict, was deeply naïve".
